Quotes About Circumstances

in times of trouble it sometimes happened that even those who wanted to help were unable to. They might be tied down themselves for one reason or another; or else circumstances of expediency or some greater need could have kept them less involuntarily away.

Having difficulties in life is nothing but only a matter of choice.

The rich man thinks about the future the poor man thinks about today.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

each new decision that a child or an adult makes in a given set of circumstances begins patterns of thought that later create a tremendous impact in his life.

When I feel ill, cinema pictures of the circumstances of my death flit across my mind's eye. I cannot prevent them. I consider the nature of the disease and all I said before I died- something heroic, of course!

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

circumstances, whether fortunate or unfortunate, are morally neutral. They simply are what they are; what matters is how we respond to them. Good and evil, in the moral sense, do not reside in things, but always in persons.

I was taught to be queen by Margaret of Anjou, and perhaps I have taught you how to be queen in turn. This is fortune's wheel indeed. With my forefinger I draw a circle in the air, the sign of fortune's wheel. You can go very high and you can sink very low, but you can rarely turn the wheel at your own bidding.

We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.

That's how it is for women," I said, stung into honesty. "It's not what one would choose—I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune.

Une courtisane est toujours bonne, s'il y a plus de mal que de bien à faire.